NOVPUBLi Fan sped through the space tunnel, and before reaching the Empire Minor World, the Final Separation Disk had already absorbed, transformed, and deciphered all of the hundred thousand Array Techniques on the Sky Patrol Arrow.
Li Fan paused slightly, his eyes emitting a silver light, and in an instant, he erased all the Array Techniques attached to the surface of the Sky Patrol Arrow.
These hundred thousand Array Techniques were not only for speeding up, positioning, and amplification, but when layered on top of each other, they also formed an armored shell, making the Sky Patrol Arrow’s hardness reach an unimaginable level.
However, with the disappearance of these Array Techniques, the Sky Patrol Arrow revealed the raw materials of its inner core.
Only then did Li Fan discover that the Sky Patrol Arrow seemed to be a living thing!
Underneath a layer of hard keratin, a faint spiritual consciousness fluctuation could be felt. The fluctuation was extremely weak; if it were not for Li Fan’s Divine Soul being stronger than that of an average Integration Cultivator and his keen sensitivity, he almost would have missed it entirely!
"What is this thing..."
Li Fan couldn’t help but become interested.
He extended a wisp of his own faint spiritual consciousness, attempting to communicate with the Sky Patrol Arrow. But the Sky Patrol Arrow, as if frightened, almost instantly retracted its spiritual consciousness fluctuations and showed no more signs of life.
This scene was much like a terrified turtle quickly retracting into its shell.
After that, no matter how Li Fan probed, the Sky Patrol Arrow resolutely refused to show any signs of life.
Helpless, Li Fan could only collect it into his Cave Heaven for the time being, leaving a wisp of his Divine Soul to watch over it constantly, waiting for it to let its guard down before attempting further contact.
"No wonder the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals could cover thousands of Sky Patrol Arrows in such a short time. It turns out to be an unknown living being, overlaid with compound Array Techniques..."
"Hmm, there must also be a main control hub to coordinate all the Sky Patrol Arrows," Li Fan muttered to himself as he remembered the net formation of Sky Patrol Arrows in the major battle between the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals and the Five Elders Organization.
"Now that I have deciphered all the complex Array Techniques, if I can analyze the nature of this living being..."
"I could mass-produce Sky Patrol Arrows too!"
"Whether for my own use or to sell the secret to the Five Elders Organization, both would be greatly beneficial."
Li Fan, in a good mood, did not get carried away.
Looking at the nearby Empire Minor World, he did not reveal himself directly.
Instead, he first meticulously searched the area with his Divine Soul, making sure the Empire had not set any traps before he finally activated his power.
Under the enchancement of the Soul Ignition Decision, five rounds of bizarre Blood Moons suddenly descended above the Vault of Heaven of the Empire Minor World.
Darkness fell as the original sun was obscured.
Fearsome god-like creatures flew out of the Blood Moons and quickly occupied various locations within the Empire.
The extremely Yin and dark aura emanating from them froze even the thoughts of the mortals within the Empire.
They were unable to entertain even a thought of fear, but were all instead frozen in place.
As the Ghost Slug descended upon the Empire, Li Fan’s voice, cold and detached, echoed continuously.
"The three-year term is up; how have you managed the tasks assigned to you?"
Voice like thunder, it spread throughout the entire Empire.
At this moment, everyone in the Empire was seized by extreme fear, as if they were witnessing countless god-like creatures effortlessly tearing the Empire to pieces.
After a moment, Blue and Red, as well as the Imperial Daughter, three streaks of light flew swiftly before Li Fan.
"We pay respect to the senior," they said.
Compared to the last time, the aura emanating from Li Fan was more than just a notch stronger.
The three struggled to maintain their ability to move freely.
"I have not disappointed you, over the past three years we have poured the country’s efforts into upgrading the Spiritual Energy Synthesis Technology," Qing finally mustered the courage to reply.
Li Fan’s intense stare caused Qing’s heart to skip a beat.
"Hahahaha..."
"Excellent! Take me to see it." But a moment later, Li Fan’s hearty laughter allowed her to breathe a sigh of relief.
They arrived at the Imperial Palace Treasure Trove, where in the place of the [Crucible of Myriad Forms], there now stood a colossal machine.
It resembled an hourglass on the outside, and one could even hear something that seemed to be dripping from the upper part of the hourglass to the lower part.
"Please have a look, senior," Qing said as she pressed a button on the hourglass device.
The ticking sounds became more and more urgent.
When the sound reached a certain level, the lower part of the hourglass suddenly opened a small aperture.
Pure Spiritual Energy then jetted out from this small opening.
Due to the high concentration of Spiritual Energy, it initially formed what looked like "Spirit Rain." It then slowly turned into White Mist and dissipated into the air.
Li Fan reached out and captured a strand of Spiritual Energy.
Apart from the faint scent of blood that still lingered within it, it was almost indistinguishable from natural Spiritual Energy. 𝓷ℴ𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝒸𝓸𝓶
Even so, compared to the Spiritual Energy catalyzed with the blood and flesh of Exotic Beasts previously, the quality was much superior.
After issuing a burst of Spiritual Energy, the ticking noise from the metal hourglass all but disappeared.
A long time passed before a low sound emerged.
But Li Fan noticed that as time went on, the frequency of the ticking noises was increasing.
It seemed that once the previous speed was reached again, new Spiritual Energy would be emitted.
Li Fan’s Divine Soul penetrated the metal hourglass to its interior, discovering that the upper half of the hourglass was filled with countless tiny flesh and blood tissues.
No, rather than resembling flesh and blood, it was more akin to a collection of some kind of fungi.
Their life force was very weak, even the self-consciousness was non-existent. Their sole purpose was to absorb nutrients and reproduce themselves.
"Interesting."
Observing Li Fan’s expressions, Qing also took the opportunity to explain: "Previously, Spiritual Energy could only be produced from the Beast Cores within specific Exotic Beasts. It takes at least half a year from their birth to the formation of the Crystal Core."
"And that’s already considering that we’ve compressed their reproductive cycle to the utmost limit."
"Nevertheless, the efficiency of producing Spiritual Energy was still too low. Thus, we shifted our approach, opting for directed evolution and cultivation of these Exotic Beasts."
"All other functions were devolved, retaining only the part responsible for producing Beast Cores."
"Then, we integrated the fastest breeding characteristic of a certain fungal Exotic Beast..."
"After hundreds of generations of selective breeding, we finally obtained this nearly perfect creation."
Qing’s tone was steady, but when it came to their research results, there was an uncontrollable excitement in her eyes.
"As the senior has observed, these Exotic Beasts begin to reproduce themselves from the moment of birth."
"Eliminating the need for [reproduction], they rely entirely on self-replication for infinite propagation. Furthermore, the nutrients they require are just like ordinary fungi: water and sunlight are sufficient."
"After the Crystal Core is formed within their bodies, these Exotic Beasts will die naturally, their flesh separating from the Crystal Core."
"The Crystal Cores are collected at the funnel below, while the corpses of the beasts are decomposed and recycled as nutrients, absorbed by others of their kind."
"Thus, the cycle continues. This device only needs a small amount of nutrients added at fixed intervals to produce Spiritual Energy ceaselessly."
